Cloud Infrastructure Lead (Trust Retail)

Job summary

Tru*** is seeking a Cloud Infrastructure Lead to oversee their AWS cloud infrastructure, ensuring performance, security, and cost-efficiency. The role involves guiding the DevOps team, collaborating with technical stakeholders, and establishing infrastructure standards while participating in an on-call rotation.

Benefits

Qualifications

• 6+ years' experience in cloud infrastructure or DevOps engineering roles, with at least 2 years in a lead or senior capacity
• Extensive, hands-on experience with AWS, spanning core services such as EC2, VPC, RDS, ECS, S3, IAM, CloudFront, and Route 53
• Solid experience with Infrastructure as Code, particularly Terraform, in production environments
• Demonstrated experience designing and managing CI/CD pipelines using tools such as GitLab, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or similar
• Good understanding of cloud networking concepts, including VPC design, peering, load balancing, security groups, and DNS
• Experience implementing and maintaining cloud security best practices
• Proficiency in scripting and automation using Python, Bash, or equivalent languages
• Demonstrated experience managing and mentoring DevOps or infrastructure engineers
• Good understanding of observability tooling, including AWS CloudWatch
• Effective communication skills

Responsibilities

• Take primary ownership of Trust Retail's AWS cloud infrastructure, ensuring environments are performant, secure, cost-efficient, and highly available
• Guide the DevOps team, setting priorities, providing technical direction, and supporting the professional development of team members
• Partner with the Solution Architect, Product Owner, BAs, and other technical stakeholders to design and deliver cloud infrastructure that supports new feature development and business growth
• Champion the identification and remediation of technical debt across our cloud estate
• Establish and uphold infrastructure standards, patterns, and best practices across all AWS environments
• Own and evolve Infrastructure as Code (IaC) practices, ensuring all infrastructure is version-controlled, repeatable, and auditable
• Ensure robust monitoring, alerting, and observability across all environments
• Coordinate disaster recovery planning and testing
• Oversee CI/CD pipeline infrastructure, collaborating with development teams to improve deployment reliability
• Manage cloud cost optimisation initiatives
• Maintain a strong security and compliance posture across AWS workloads
• Evaluate and recommend new AWS services and tooling

Skills

Certifications

Relocation